History Recap / TheSimpsonsS14E11BartingOver

The one where Bart moves out for a while.

* StockScream: When Bart reveals his "nipple piercings" to Marge, she [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EPnGQXg5s0 lets out a quick Homer-esque shriek]] that was achieved by taking one of Creator/DanCastellaneta's Homer screams and pitch-shifting it to sound more feminine.

** While Homer was never a saint to begin with, this episode takes a more serious view on his [[{{Jerkass}} callous and abusive behaviour]], resulting in Bart deciding to emancipate himself.

** Marge is complacent in and tries to rugsweep Homer's abuse and neglect of Bart. She also tries to manipulate Bart into staying and then later coming back to live at home, but none of that works in her favor. She also deprives Lisa of sleep to make her help with spring cleaning.

* EggSitting: After Bart's emancipation, Homer says he took up carrying a bag of sugar to learn how to love and care for a child. When he shows it to the family, he discovers he's carrying an actual baby. The sugar is then revealed to be at the Spuckler residence.

* TemptingFate: Bart says probably nobody will remember Homer's ad fifty years later. A TimeSkip shows Homer's tombstone describing him as an "impotency spokesman" and an elderly Nelson haw-hawing at the tombstone.
* TooDumbToLive: When Homer tries to play off threatening Bart by saying it's a lapse in his usual calm demeanor and Judge Harm has the stenographer read it back, he starts threatening the stenographer then Judge Harm. He even tries to attack her when Bart's declared emancipated and has to be dragged out of the courtroom by bailiffs. It's to the point Judge Harm was already sketching up a picture of Homer being hung on a noose to show she considers Homer already long lost the case.

* BaitAndSwitch: As Bart leaves on to live on his own he says he will give a sad Lisa something to remember him, in the form of an Indian Burn. Initially it comes off as a KickTheDog, but he was actually leaving a burn in the shape of a heart.

** Marge is complacent in and tries to rugsweep Homer's abuse and neglect of Bart. She also tries to manipulate Bart into staying and then later coming back to live at home. She also deprives Lisa of sleep to make her help with spring cleaning.

** Soon as Nelson rides by on his bike and makes fun of Bart for being Baby Stinkbreath, he crashes into a tree.

* NoSympathy: Marge is more concerned with trying to manipulate Bart into coming home, instead of acknowledging how abusive Homer is towards Bart in the physical, emotional, mental, and fiscal senses.

In the episode that's advertised as the "300th episode", Bart discovers that he was once a child star in a string of embarrassing commercials, but when Homer reveals that all of Bart's money went to buying back incriminating photos, Bart petitions the court to have himself emancipated and moves to a loft apartment next to Tony Hawk and Music/Blink182.

* AsHimself: Tony Hawk and Music/Blink182. The former has a bigger role as a guest appearance.

* AmbiguousSyntax: Lisa finds the videotape titled "Bart Sad", which intrigues her, and so, she puts it in the VCR. However, when she finds a commercial starring Bart as a baby, she realizes that this should have said "Bart'''[='=]'''s Ad"

* EmancipatedChild: Bart becomes one for the episode.

In the (episode advertised as the) "300th episode", Bart discovers that he was once a child star in a string of embarrassing commercials, but when Homer reveals that all of Bart's money went to buying back incriminating photos, Bart petitions the court to have himself emancipated and moves to a loft apartment next to Tony Hawk and Music/Blink182.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Marge tells Bart that Homer's throat is not a toy and yet, she doesn't stop Homer from doing so to his own son.

** Bart is only 10--in real life, you have to be 14 to 17 to be emancipated from your parents and/or legal guardians. This is actually lampshaded by the judge as she admits she would never emancipate a 10 years old kid from their parents, unless such abuse and neglect is extremely blant and downright dangerous for the child.
** Legal emancipation requires a consistent and reliable source of income, and a place of residence to live in after you leave, neither of which Bart has.

In the (episode advertised as the) 300th episode, Bart discovers that he was once a child star in a string of embarrassing commercials, but when Homer reveals that all of Bart's money went to buying back incriminating photos, Bart petitions the court to have himself emancipated and moves to a loft apartment next to Tony Hawk and Music/Blink182.

* EmancipatedChild: Bart becomes one.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Judge Constance Harm is the one who takes up Bart's case against his dad. Despite being known for her cruelty and harshness--as well as acknowledging the fact that is Bart is technically too young to be emancipated from his family--even she feels that Bart's probably better off living on his own than being forced to live with a JerkAss like Homer.

* TooDumbToLive: When Homer tries to play off threatening Bart by saying it's a lapse in his usual calm demeanor and Judge Harm has the stenographer read it back, he starts threatening the stenographer then Judge Harm. He even tries to attack her when Bart's declared emancipated and has to be dragged out of the courtroom by bailiffs.

** Bart is only 10--in real life, you have to be 14 to 17 to be emancipated from your parents and/or legal guardians.

* DiggingYourselfDeeper: Upon being informed that half of his salary must go to Bart. Homer complains that the other half is already going to his Vegas wife and he won't have anything to spend on Moe's.

** Homer complains that half of his salary goes to his Vegas wife, but their marriage came to an end when she married Grandpa and she shouldn't be getting alimony from him.

** Lisa, Maggie, and Nelson making fun of Bart for being Baby Stinkbreath, something he had no control over.

** Lisa and Maggie making fun of Bart for being Baby Stinkbreath, something he had no control over.

** StockScream: When Bart reveals his "nipple piercings" to Marge, she [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EPnGQXg5s0 lets out a quick Homer-esque shriek]] that was achieved by taking one of Creator/DanCastellaneta's Homer screams and pitch-shifting it to sound more feminine.

* LaserGuidedKarma: Homer gets a well-deserved strangling by Bart.